Air Travel
Original Text:
Margaret Christakos, What Stirs (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008): 50.
1A soup of atmosphere tugs us back
2Purple stew at sunset
3All of us levy a coordinated breaststroke
4Captain shouts Heave, ya bastards!
5You expected comfort?
RPO poem Editors:
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition:
2011
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Special Copyright:
Copyright © Margaret Christakos and used by permission of the poet. Authorization to republish this poem must be obtained from her in writing.